Latest from the LoC after surgical strikes against Pakistan- Panic stricken villages remain pitch-dark : 10 points

Jammu:  Amid tension prevailing in areas along the Indo-Pak border after the surgical strikes in PoK to dismantle terrorist launch pads, nearly 10,000 villagers living along IB and LoC have migrated to safer areas in Jammu district.

• "Nearly 10,000 people have migrated from border villages to safer areas today," Jammu Deputy Commissioner Simrandeep Singh said on Friday

 

• Most of the people migrated to safer areas in Jammu

 

• Amid the tensions at the border, most of the villages observed extreme calm and silence on Friday night

 

• People residing in the villages along the LoC, didn’t maintained complete darkness after orders from Border Security Force

 

• 600 of the migrants have shifted to camps set up by the government

 

• All the people living within 6 to 7 kms of the border have been asked to move to safer areas and schools within 10 kms of the border have been closed till further notice

 

• These directions have been passed to people living along IB in Jammu, Samba and Kathua districts and along LoC in Rajouri and Poonch, officials said

 

• Most of them have shifted to the houses of their relatives in safer places, a police officer said

 

• The hospitals in the border belt have been put on alert

 

• Army has evacuated some people living in border areas in Noushera belt of Rajouri anticipation of a possible retaliation by Pakistani troops, officials said